Satyendra Nath Bose

Scientists investigated a new two-dimensional form of matter known as Bose glass, which could help physicists study a concept known as many-body localization.

Using a clever laser technique, scientists have squished pairs of atoms closer together than ever before, revealing some truly mind-boggling quantum effects.

More than two decades ago, scientists predicted that at ultra-low temperatures, many atoms could undergo 'quantum superchemistry' and chemically react as one. They've finally shown it's real.

An experiment outlined by a UCL (University College London)-led team of scientists from the UK and India could test whether relatively large masses have a quantum nature, resolving the question of whether quantum mechanical description works at a much larger scale than that of particles and atoms.

In an international collaboration, AMOLF researchers have theoretically described and experimentally observed spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in two laser-driven coupled optical cavities. SSB is a universal phenomenon that occurs in many physical systems. It is at the heart of the laser, superconductivity, and the Higgs mechanism, for example. In the case of laser-driven systems like optical cavities, it was…

How many states of matter are there? When you were young, you probably learned about the three that are most common to our experience: solid, liquid, and gas. All of these occur with regularity here…

Almost a century ago, physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein predicted a theoretical state of matter in which individual particles would, at extremely cold temperatures and low densities, condense into an indistinguishable whole. These so-called Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) would offer a macroscopic view into the microscopic world of quantum mechanics.

A team of physicists, including University of Massachusetts assistant professor Tigran Sedrakyan, recently announced in the journal Nature that they have discovered a new phase of matter. Called the "chiral Bose-liquid state," the discovery opens a new path in the age-old effort to understand the nature of the physical world.

If you could immerse yourself in a quantum fluid, you would hear every event twice, because they support two sound waves with different speeds.

Giants in History: Purnima Sinha (12 October 1927 – 11 July 2015), the first Bengali woman to receive a doctorate in physics, analysed clay structures using x-ray equipment that she built from salvaged World War II-era parts.

Scientists from Columbia University have created kind of fifth state of matter that's dipolar, which opens the door for dozens of exotic matter applications

A collaboration of Australian and European physicists predict that layered electronic 2D semiconductors can host a curious quantum phase of matter called the "supersolid."

Born in 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose was one of the leading luminaries of twentieth century physics. Written by Bose's former student, Partha Ghose, this account pays tribute to the life of a trailblazer who, along with Albert Einstein, established a new direction in quantum mechanics, and whose name will echo in the annals of scientific discovery for centuries to come.

We do not have a theory to tell us everything about how a black hole works, but new research is shedding a least some light on one of their many mysteries.

Scientists discovered a technique to make an atom laser run indefinitely using Bose-Einstein condensate, which can aid in the search for dark matter and dark energy in space.

After previously studying the phenomena of two sound waves in quantum liquids, scientists have now observed sound moving at two different speeds in a quantum gas.

Nuclear fusion is a widely studied process through which atomic nuclei of a low atomic number fuse together to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing a large amount of energy. Nuclear fusion reactions can be produced using a method known as inertial confinement fusion, which entails the use of powerful lasers to implode a fuel capsule and produce plasma.

In recent years, physicists have been trying to attain the control of chemical reactions in the quantum degenerate regime, where de Broglie wavelength of particles becomes comparable to the spacing between them. Theoretical predictions suggest that many-body reactions between bosonic reactants in this regime will be marked by quantum coherence and Bose enhancement, yet this has been difficult to validate…

Surprise!

A new phase of matter has been discovered by a team of physicists who succeeded in engineering what they call a "frustration machine."